Extremely well acted film version of the Arthur Miller play. Raf Vallone, in a ferocious performance, is a frustrated Brooklyn dock worker in love with the niece he & wife Maureen Stapleton have raised. When cousins from Italy come to visit, all hell breaks loose as one of them falls for the niece. This modern day Greek tragedy directed by Sidney Lumet is powerful, tense and very exciting. Vallone is astounding and he's matched by Stapleton, who is excellent as a brutally honest truth-teller. Her eyes are wide open as she sees her husband descend into madness lusting after the one thing he can never have. The stark cinematography is by Michel Kelber, a Ukranian who'd been shooting films since the early 1930s. Harvey Lembeck, Jean Sorel, and Morris Carnovsky co-star. Raymond Pellegrin is a stand-out as Marco and Carol Lawrence is the niece.
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